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I mean there’s a lot of truth to that. I was always skeptical that Bernie could work well with others enough to be productive, since he’s spent so much of his long career standing against every politician

Then the weird part is there was a surprisingly large overlap of people who supported both Bernie and the orange clown. So strange when you’re thinking opposite gaols, but perhaps it’s just that both were outside the establishment

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Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I find it more weird that the vast majority of the USA is probably piss-poor to normal poor, yet even those seem to think that a billionaire will care for them and better their lifes. And then wear maga-hats. Or do people with 6-figures think they’re not poor? But I so would wish you guys that next election he might get a rerun, considering how the clown drove the USA into the gutter. I mean if that gestures broadly at everything didn’t help to vote differently, then what would…

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- AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I don’t get it either. Maybe people closer to median income think six figures is well off but it’s really not anymore. None of the people i know with six figure income think they’re well off, especially not in an expensive state like Massachusetts.
  
  As a society we do a poor job of providing for our people, so there’s always another fee or subscription or tax. There’s always another person looking for a tip or to extract a profit from your needs
  
  We had decades of headlines about the orange clown being someone you wouldn’t trust to make money from a casino, honor a contract, or pay the taxes he owed . He was always a grifter and narcissist, always considered himself above laws and regulations . Maybe all those years of negative headlines never went as nationwide as I thought but anyone in ny, nj, New England area knew what he was and have no excuse
  
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  - Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    Maybe people closer to median income think six figures is well off but it’s really not anymore. None of the people i know with six figure income think they’re well off, especially not in an expensive state like Massachusetts.
    
    Mustn’t even be an expensive state. The fact alone that healthcare is bound to having a job, paints a horrible misery just 2 bad lucks with Bad timing away…
    
    Especially considering that people tend to up their lifestyle with every additionally earned buck. If you dont save 90% of your 250k net a year, you’re still just poor
    
    As a society we do a poor job of providing for our people, so there’s always another fee or subscription or tax. There’s always another person looking for a tip or to extract a profit from your needs
    
    Guess that’s a global capitalism-thing, not just us-american. It’s the same here. We pay the worst for the most important jobs (nurses etc) and then wonder why noone wants to work there anymore. But ceo-pays rise massively like everywhere else…disgusting.
    
    Maybe all those years of negative headlines never went as nationwide as I thought but anyone in ny, nj, New England area knew what he was and have no excuse
    
    I only marginally got news about him before he went gaga as potus. But I’m no murican, so that is obvious. Maybe people just forgot? Or didn’t care, or did knew and cared but were evil. Or just dumb. I imagine the clown drove a big campaign-circus being “the change the USA needs”. At least he delivered. He made the USA great again. Just not for the poor but the very rich. Who would’ve thought a billionaire would do such a thing, I’m flabbergasted.
    
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